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The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews
- Title
- The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.
- Author
- Early, John D.
- Publication
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 311 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and indexes.
- Contents
- The research -- The saints, their homes, and their servants -- Mayan festivals for the saints -- Mayan insistence on the mass performed by a Catholic priest -- Traditional Mayan worldview -- The worldview of the Spanish crown at the beginning of the sixteenth century -- Spanish victories and their impact on the Mayan worldview -- The goals of evangelization -- The strategy for communicating the doctrina -- Problems facing the friars -- The secular clergy -- The necessity of the saints in the Mayan worldview -- The necessity of the mass, baptism, and the Catholic priest in the Mayan worldview -- The fiscal -- The mass of the talking saints -- Questions raised by the research.
- Call Number
- JGE 07-35
- ISBN
- 0813030250 (alk. paper)
- 9780813030258 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006023026
- OCLC
- 70668691
- Author
- Early, John D.
- Title
- The Maya and Catholicism : an encounter of worldviews / John D. Early.
- Imprint
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-295) and indexes.
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- Research Call Number
- JGE 07-35